How do your beliefs affect your physical being?

Question

This is a tough one. It has tremendous implications. It confronts and unites body and mind, biology and psychology, nature and culture, materialism and spitiualism,... These are some typical dichotomic distinctions that had a tremendous impact on Western thought; and all of them resolve in this Q.
(Note that the reverse --How do your physical being affect your beliefs?-- is relevant aswell.)
I'm interested in your opinion now.

Answer 1

Everything you believe in has a direct impact on your physical being. It affects whether you get sick or not, whether you feel wholesome or not, whether you feel confident or not etc.
The more convinced you are about what you believe in the more healthy you are physically. The trap there is that many people "feel" convinced about their beliefs but are troubled about them subconsciously. The answer: examine your most sacred beliefs. It's about your very existence.

Answer 2

To day, I can say for sure, that my physical being, (my self)?, isn't affected at all, by my belief's, basically because I know, I have learn to control the matter's, that of my self, where to affects, my belief's, that more stronger, solid and concrete than ever, are allowing my self to move on forward a more consistence perfection. Although, there are physical affections that I take as normal as the body deteriorate, but not because of physical encounters, but because of the pressure of matter's and substances of matter's, to push me back into stay with the substances and don't allow my self to achieved the evolution of my own essences, which is what I believed its the purpose of been my self a living energy experiencing the material Body, in an effort to learn in the essences what the substances of matter has to offer to perfect the physical entity. Which as of to day I steal consider to be mainly a material existence?

Answer 3

Your belief is everything, there is nothing else.

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

Some would say that it's your physical being that reflects your beliefs.

Nietzsche would go so far to say things like climate and digestion have an effect on philosophy. Resentment and therefore beliefs in Christianity are caused (in part) by bad physical digestion of food and mental digestion of perceived wrongs at the hands of the world. Mental and physical rumination at work.

India could not produce a Kant because who could get so anxious about compartmentalizing and categorizing everything in that heat?

Marx would say that our physical circumstances in the world overall reflect our beliefs. Why are Asian cultures collectivist? Because their primary crop is rice which must be farmed by large groups working together to get enough to make it worthwhile.

I have to say, their points do make sense to me.

Answer 5

Our physical being or physical reality is our beliefs and thoughts actualized. Our beliefs attract certain things to us. For instance, a person says they want more money, need more money, would like to be rich, but on the other hand their beliefs say that getting money is hard, money doesn't grow on trees, money is the root of all evil, rich people are crooks, rich people have no morals etc. etc., their beliefs are doing nothing but attracting the lack of money into their physical reality. Another example would be a person who wants to lose weight. They want to be skinny, yearn to be skinny, but their beliefs say that it is hard work to be thin and healthy, that all skinny people have good genes and high metabolism, that skinny people are unhappy with themselves, that fat=jolly and happy, that skinny people can only eat salads, they think that skinny people are not nice, and with these beliefs they attract more of what they have now which is not skinny (or atleast as thin as they would like to be), because you cannot become, atleast not permanently, that which you feel is something that you do not like (ie: evil or not nice). If you think bad things about that which you profess that you want, you will only repel it from you.

Answer 6

The body behaves as the mind believes. Choose your beliefs with care.

A person who believes the world will end this week will live with extreme fear and anxiety. That person will stop living as they believe the end is here. That person will give up hope and give up trying. That person will no longer see any reason to live. Some believe they will never be happy. The body reacts as if the belief were to be true. Of course, it isn't.

Some choose to have other beliefs about the world.

Answer 7

I hope I am answering this one right!

My belief is that the human body is a electrical and chemical machine that HAS to be used every day, or it will decay.
Whether or not this machine was the results of evolution, or created by a superior being, I do not know. I read information that greatly supports BOTH arguments.

So I exercise every day.

Answer 8

If you are under stress, a good faith in religion can aleviate some of that stress. Living high standards keeps one from having the dark look about them, while someone doing something against their principles will be burdened with guilt, and it will alter their actions and habits, and ultimately their lifestyle and personality.

Answer 9

If a person believes he or she is a "worthy person" than he or she will take measures to promote personal physical and emotional health.
The obverse is true as well--people sometimes punish themselves physically and emotionally.
Another thought...belief in the idea of "stewardship" of the planet will tend to lead people to conserve resources, enjoy natural surroundings, look to consequences of actions, etc.
All this is true of deeply held beliefs...not necessarily true to what we SAY we believe.

Answer 10

once you're saying beginning place or the initiating, then you definately are touching on the God Particle that each and everybody started each thing. it fairly is the particle that we are able to work out in financial ruin between the bible and the Quran, whilst Allah says, be, and that's. basically because you hit upon a particle that impacts something of the debris does not advise that there is not any God. for below one God particle can sustain the completed universe, and that one particle became into despatched down whilst God mentioned, "enable there be gentle".